Basic Home Base HabitsBy Scott Hollingsworth
Setting up a home base business office may seem like the perfect answer to spending time with family as well as earning a living.
It is not that easy, however. It takes a lot of planning to find just the right balance between home base business and family life, however it can happen. Here are some ideas.
A primary care giver needs child care for young children during the hours she or he will be running her home base business. It does not necessarily have to mean taking the kids to the sitter. It may be that a sitter can be found to come to the business owners home just as long as the geographical distance is great enough between the office of the home base business and the play area of the home to allow for undistracted work.
If the home base business has fluctuating hours, then perhaps a child care coop might work, where the small business owner would take his or her part in watching all the children. This would reduce child care expenses while assuring that someone known and trusted is watching the children.
If the children are going to be home, plan conference calls and business meetings during the hours they are in school or away elsewhere.
A home base business needs its own closed door space if children are in the home. Not only does this help soundproof the work area and help get the message across to the kids and others that the home business owner is working and the area off limits but it also gives the business owner a break. Closing the door at the end of the day gives the owner a break and makes her or him less likely to work constantly and get burned out.
Other handy options for a home base business are a second phone line dedicated to the business one the children would never answer. This line should have voice mail as well, which would keep the phone answerable even when the owner is on the line. It would also allow for remote voice mail greeting changes and remote message check.
Another handy service for a home base business is an office away from the office, such as UPS store or others that offer faxing, copying and mailing. There are some that answer the phone for the business as well, passing the messages on regularly.
The most important client related issue with a home base business is that the customer not be aware that they are talking to you anywhere but in your professional office. Screaming children or barking dogs in the background of your home base do not make for a professional business environment.
To Your Continued Success!
Scott Hollingsworth
Publisher/Editor
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